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Gibson Guitar Extends Financial and Distribution Solution to Add Cutting Edge: For more than four decades, Gibson has rocked the music industry with its world-famous electric guitars, used by rock legends such as B.B. King and Led Zeppelin. The quality and innovation of Gibson's products have set the standard in guitar manufacturing. To meet growing customer demands, Gibson employed that same...; Tags: Innovation, Warehouse Management System, Financial, Microsoft Corp., Gibson Guitar, Vertical Industries, Leadership, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management; Case studies 2007-07-18
A Model for Classifying Warehouse Management: Implications for Warehouse Management Systems: As a result of increasing global competition and the introduction of supply chain concepts, warehousing has become a critical activity in the supply chain to outperform competitors on customer service, lead-time and costs. Over the last decades warehouses have become larger and their internal logistic processes have become more complex....; Tags: Supply Chain, Warehouse Management System, Warehouse, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2004-02-01
U.S. Marines Supply Warehouse Wins Inventory Accuracy Battle with Wireless Technology: The US Marine Corps' Intermediate Supply Support Activity ISSA, located at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina provides repair parts, combat equipment and packaged food rations to Marine forces on the East Coast and remote locations as far away as the Mediterranean, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. Prior to implementing a wireless system,...; Tags: Warehouse Management System, Psion Teklogix, Wireless Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies
Procter & Gamble (P & G) Warehouse Management System: The Procter & Gamble Company (P & G) is a recognized leader in the development, distribution and marketing of superior fabric and home care, baby care, feminine care, family care, beauty care, healthcare and snacks and beverage products. With P & G China's rapid inventory turnaround time, its existing paper-based...; Tags: Warehouse Management System, Procter & Gamble Co., Symbol Technologies Inc., Vertical Industries, Food & Beverage, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing; Case studies
Strategic National Stockpile Inventory System, for Ohio Department of Health: 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study: The Ohio Department of Health has responded to the Center for Disease Control's program of being able to respond to an unforeseen state-wide event by developing a series of stand-alone warehouse management system applications. In the scenario where a large scale event has occurred, the CDC shall immediately deploy to...; Tags: Warehouse Management System, Health Care, Computerworld, International Data Group, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Benefits, Software, Human Resources; Case studies

UK Retailer Moves Warehouse Management System From UNIX to SUSE Linux and Reduces Licensing Costs by 30 Percent: Farmfoods Limited is one of the UK's most successful privately-owned food retailers, with over 300 stores throughout the country, 3300 employees and turnover of £420 million. Farmfoods had a choice of replacing its servers and using the same UNIX systems, or using a Linux system for its Warehouse Management System...; Tags: Novell Inc., Warehouse Management System, SuSE Linux, SuSE, Farmfoods Ltd., Linux, Vertical Industries, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies
Pet Food Distributor Extends Distribution Solution to Gain Competitive Advantage: Faced with shrinking margins and intense competitive pressure, Lads Pet Supplies needed a cutting-edge software solution. Working together, Lads and Microsoft Partner Appolis implemented a custom solution by integrating WithoutWire Warehouse - a wireless warehouse management system created by Appolis - with Lads's Microsoft Dynamics GP distribution solution. Lads is...; Tags: Warehouse Management System, Competitive Advantage, Microsoft Corp., Lads Pet Supplies, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies

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What paper trail?: I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....; Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Talent development: Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...; Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Britain moves against illegal file sharing: CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...; Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Rumor Mill: iPhone to get copy, paste and better navi in firmware 2.1: The most exciting thing around the watercooler today is the rumor that Apple has seeded iPhone firmware 2.1 to developers. MacNN sources tell them that they've found references to cut, copy and paste in the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj. Woot!According to the story the 2.1 firmware also contains...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Apple Inc., Firmware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-25
How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability: The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...; Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer: Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer.Â From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...; Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Gateway stops selling PCs direct: Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...; Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity: Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop: Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called theÂ Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Ready for real Indian medicine?: Ready for real Indian medicine?Reply from C.A. ChienDear Mr. Blankenhorn:Thanks for your note. To clarify: (1) I wanted to document my inventive system-design and inter-connection work on [i]Medical Onshoring[/i]; thus, the USPTO filing; (2) as to the "how," head to --http://tinyurl.com/6c4tj4" .. Covering the professional world (e.g., health care, computing),...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Medical Onshoring, health care; Discussion threads 2008-07-24
Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloudniceveryniceMicrosoft's elastic cloudGee, we had elastic Wow!Now we are going to get the elastic cloud.Metaphor watch anyone?Get ready for a whole new blob of Bloat from the people who invented Bloat.Rule of thumb: If Microsoft promises something, the promise is, with near certainty, false.The credibility...; Tags: elastic cloud, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie; Discussion threads 2008-07-24
Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up: Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens delivered strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was solid and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale. Ahead of its earnings report statement Thursday Juniper made the Johnson news official. The company has...; Tags: Revenue, Juniper Networks Inc., Kevin Johnson, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-24
We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!: We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...; Tags: Copiers, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Market-Share, Apple Inc., Ubuntu, wanna-be, Microsoft Corp., photocopier, Linux; Discussion threads 2008-07-24